NORTH SEATTLE - Bicyclists and motorcyclists are encouraged to use extreme caution this summer when riding on streets that have been newly chip-sealed, which produces a large amount of loose gravel. The Seattle Department of Transportation is resealing about 42 lane miles of selected streets in Maple Leaf and Broadview neighborhoods, starting Tuesday, July 10, and throughout the month.
One way to create community is to meet together over food. In the absence of a table large enough to seat all of North Seattle, meeting over the food in the increasing numbers of farmers' markets should work just fine.At least, that is the theory of Jon Hegeman, who is behind a good number of the farmers' markets popping up each week in Seattle neighborhoods.
The search for Mike Webb, the combative talk-show host fired from KIRO-AM who was last seen in mid-April, has ended.Webb's badly decomposed body was found Thursday, June 28, wedged into a crawlspace in Webb's Queen Anne rental home on Third Avenue West. He was 51. The King County Medical Examiner verified the remains were Webb's the following day.Seattle police have labeled the case a homicide, saying Webb apparently died of stab wounds.
BLACKLIGHT CLOSESBlacklight closed on Friday, June 30, after six months of operation at the Capitol Hill Arts Center (CHAC).NWAS SHUT DOWNAfter nearly 30 years on the Hill, the Northwest Actor's Studio (NWAS) finally closed its doors in June.HUGO HOUSE SELECTS RESIDENTSJust to prove that not all theater news is bad news, two companies were tapped by Richard Hugo House to become the space's first resident companies: Next Stage and SiS Productions.
BLACKLIGHT CLOSESBlacklight closed on Friday, June 30, after six months of operation at the Capitol Hill Arts Center (CHAC).NWAS SHUT DOWNAfter nearly 30 years on the Hill, the Northwest Actor's Studio (NWAS) finally closed its doors in June.HUGO HOUSE SELECTS RESIDENTSJust to prove that not all theater news is bad news, two companies were tapped by Richard Hugo House to become the space's first resident companies: Next Stage and SiS Productions.
The City of Seattle is now accepting nominations for the annual Mayor's Small Business Awards. Ten small businesses around Seattle will be selected to receive an awarded based on excellence in management, entrepreneurial spirit, customer service and community involvement. 2007 marks the 23rd year of the program, which has recognized more than 220 small businesses.
Seattle Symphony music director Gerard Schwarz and executive director Thomas Philion announce the appointment of Carolyn Kuan as the Symphony's Douglas F. King Associate Conductor, beginning Sept. 1. Kuan has served as assistant conductor during the orchestra's current season and will conduct four performances of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" July 12-14.
Do you need your current life insurance policy any longer, or have your needs changed? Possibly your premiums are becoming too expensive or your policy is under-performing its original projections. Could it be that your policy is lapsing without value, or you are leaving behind a group life benefit?
Andrew Larsen, who played in the Queen Anne Little League from 1995 through 2001, recently completed his freshman season with the Rochester Institute of Technology baseball team in New York state. Larsen was instrumental in the Rochester Tigers' racking up a record 24 wins (24-12 for the season) and securing a berth in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Tournament.
WALLINGFORD - The city has decided to dump its plans for a third garbage transfer station in Georgetown and instead keep the two existing ones open, including the North Recycling and Transfer Station in Wallingford.
Despite its New Agey image of holistic healing and alternative medicine, the opening in Wallingford Center of Pharmaca has sparked worry and even anger in a retail district concerned that corporate muscle is hurting its neighborhood identity.Leslie Edmondson, manager of the Bee Well Vitamin Shoppe east of Wallingford Center, admitted that "we were a little upset at first" when Pharmaca moved in to that particular location, though she adds that Pharmaca employees have been "cordial" so far.
Thank you for the insightful editorial ("Notice of Proposed Word Use Action," by Matthew Wilemski, June 6) about the loss of our neighborhood charm (and history). I am the founder of the Greenwood-Phinney Historical Society, and your editorial really hit home where the current state of our city is concerned. It would be nice to think that some day those condos and townhouses will be torn down to be replaced by character-filled, single-family homes, but I don't think that's going to happen. Once they're gone, they're gone. That's why preservation right now is so important.<
High school's mishandling of student-rape case proves district needs to be disciplinedMaria Goodloe-Johnson, the new superintendent of Seattle Public Schools, has a slam-dunk opportunity to set a tone for her new tenure. I hope she uses it.At issue is an incident at Rainier Beach High School in Southeast Seattle, wherein a female student was allegedly sexually assaulted. So what did school officials do? They suspended the boys for three days. Case over.Until three weeks later, when the girl herself reported the incident to police, something school officials are supposedly required to do immediately.
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When it rains heavily in Magnolia, it pours - sewage into Elliott Bay. The event is called a combined sewer overflow (CSO) and takes place when stormwater overwhelms the system so that untreated sewage mixes with the stormwater and is dumped into the bay.t happens an average of 10 times a year at the CSO several hundred feet out in the water from a popular beach at the end of 32nd Avenue West, according to Annie Kolb-Nelson from King County's Wastewater Treatment Division. That poses an obvious health risk to people and animals in the waters off the heavily used beach, but the county has plans to reduce the local CSO to once a year, she says.